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Sour · Anytime · Summer
Daiquiri
Three things only: white rum, fresh lime, sugar. Shaken hard and cold, it is the drink every bartender gets judged on.
- Base
- Rum
- Glass
- Coupe glass
- Method
- Shake
- Strength
- 18% ABV
Ingredients
Servings
- 60 mlWhite Cuban Ron
20 mlFresh Lime Juice1 swap
Fresh lemon juicemediumSlightly less floral, more tart
- 2 bar spoonSuperfine Sugar
How to make
Technique
Shake · 10–15sShaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.
- In a cocktail shaker add all ingredients.
- Stir well to dissolve the sugar.
- Add ice and shake.
- Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Serve
Glass
Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass
Garnish
Lime wheelA thin wheel, slit once so it sits on the rim.
Taste & nutrition
18%ABV
140kcal
1.42Drinks
StrengthMedium
Sweet to dryDry
Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.
Good to know
- Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.
History
Year1898
PlaceDaiquirí, Cuba
Created byAttributed to Jennings Cox
The Daiquiri — white rum, lime and sugar — is tied to the mining town of Daiquirí in Cuba around 1898, where American engineer Jennings Cox is said to have served it. It is the purest expression of the rum sour, balanced entirely on three ingredients. Ernest Hemingway's fondness for it later cemented its fame. Served up or blended, it is a benchmark of good bartending.
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